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Friday, May 2nd, 2008Timothy Garon, the man denied a liver transplant because he smoked medical marijuana prescribed by a doctor to deal with nausea and appetite loss, has died.
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No hyperbole; that’s just evil.
Murder!
Friggin unbelieveable. Is the USA the least compassionate country in the world? It seems so.
This shit brings tears to my eyes….makes me sick to my stomach. Fuck the drug war.
It has nothing to do with the drug war. His use of marijuana made him a poor candidate because of the effects of marijuana not its legal status. He had the freedom to choose another medication, but didn’t. Personal responsibility at play in this one.
Patrick - ‘because of the effects of marijuana’? Are you talking about the positive effects that it gives as a medical treatment? Off course it has negative side effects (overshadowed by its benefits), so does chemo. Wake the fuck up.
so he recieved a death sentence because he made a choice that a government irrationally condemns as illegal, even while allowing the choice to be a legal remedy given the situation? Brilliant. Mindblowingly Brilliant.
Motherfuckers. If they think shit like this will stop the revolution..well, they don’t know us very well, do they?
I’m talking about the effects of marijuana on the viability of transplant organs. You say the negatives are overshadowed by the positives, I guess that’s all in how you look it at it. If I needed a transplant and couldn’t get it because of my marijuana use, I might have a slightly different view of what outweighed what. I guess all lthe libertarians here forget their beliefs when they conflict.
patrick - Do you even know what your talking about? Any medical training? Marijuana has no effect on organ viability. Many transplant canidates take Marinol, a synthetic version of THC to try and gain weight. Please remember that in this particular case marijuana was legally perscribed by a doctor.
Paratrooper,
Nope, no medical training, but the reasons given by the medical professionals who determine who has the best chance of successfully receiving a transplant are good enough for me. Like I said, it has nothing to do with the drug war or whether or not marijuana is legal or should be. Apparently, according to the doctors who are in the know, people who use marijuana are not good candidates. That’s part of the consequences of choice I guess. Funny that when personal choice, consequences and the war on drugs conflict, we get this kind of posturing.
That’s funny because I am a medical professional and most transplant doctors I know would not sentence someone to death over marijuana use.
Well then we seem to have a conflict, because the reporting related to this incident (And I have little faith is reporting) says there were medical considerations to his use that made him a poor candidate. Perhaps your medical professionals trump the one quoted in a related article. BTW, “medical professional” covers quite a bit of area, most of it irrelevant.